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| Palestine Inside Out – An Everyday Occupation |
| 2008-06-11 03:42:00 |
The underlying theme of the book is of demographics, the Israeli project to empty the land of Palestinians and not allow the right of return under any circumstances. This is accomplished by using not only pure physical force, but also by using cultural, social, and economic disenfranchisement using a “complex series of bureaucratic and administrative hurdles”, the main one being to prove that one has land in the first place. Saree Makdisi’s conclusion to her first section of the book is that the whole extended Peace Process “has been a fiction that has served primarily to provide cover for its systematic confiscation of Palestinian land,” with the result that “the Israeli occupation has slowly and methodically accomplished precisely what...
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| Call for pressure to free Palestine |
| 2008-05-20 15:33:00 |
THE international community must immediately increase its pressure on the US, Europe and Israel to help liberate Palestine, said Palestinian Ambassador Ahmad Ramadan yesterday. The ambassador, who was speaking following the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Palestine nakba (catastrophe) on May 15, said that a solution to his country's crisis and the suffering of its people was largely dependent on the actions of the international community. He thanked Bahrain's leadership and citizens for their continued political and economic support to Palestinians. However, Mr Ramadan urged the international community to step up its efforts to help liberalise his country. "My message to the whole world is to help the Palestinians achieve their normal rights as stated by the UN and the internation...
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| Palestine Festival of Literature Opens Wednesday |
| 2008-05-06 05:10:00 |
The Palestine Festival of Literature will kick off from 7-11th May, 2008 with readings and performances held in Jerusalem, Ramallah and Bethlehem, said Eleanor O'Keeffe, a member of the organizing committee.High-profile writers will be attending, including William Dalrymple, Ahdaf Soueif, David Hare, Roddy Doyle, Hanan al- Shaykh, Esther Freud, Pankaj Mishra, Suheir Hammad, Jamal Mahjoub, Andrew O'Hagan, Victoria Brittain, Brigid Keenan, Nathalie Handal, Ian Jack amongst others. The up-and-coming British actor Khalid Abdullah (The Kite Runner, United 93) will also be accompanying the group as well as rising star writer Daniel Alarcon.The event is supported by the British Council, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, t...
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| Middle East conference in Moscow may be postponed |
| 2008-04-23 10:43:00 |
Much has been written in the Russian media about the visit to Moscow by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas last week, but little has been said about its results - possibly because they were not as impressive as Vladimir Putin's visit to Tripoli. This was Abbas' fourth visit to Moscow since he became president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). He talked with everyone on his agenda, namely President Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other Russian officials, and with some who were not, including Yevgeny Primakov, head of Russia's Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a former premier and foreign minister. Yet, Primakov, a respected Russian Orientalist and an indisputable authority on Arab affairs, could not help Abbas. The Palestinian le...
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| Palestine: the agricultural sector |
| 2008-04-14 16:54:00 |
Agriculture is a fundamental pillar of the weak Palestinian economy. Despite the enormous imports, the sector is partly self-sufficient and even outstanding in some areas of production, such as olive oil and flowers. Most of the production outputs are sold in Europe, in the Gulf's Arabic countries and in neighbouring Israel, where restrictions in some cases have seriously damaged the Palestinian agriculture by preventing it from becoming internationally competitive.Due to the considerable amount of land fit for cultivation in this fragmented and rather narrow territory (the entire West Bank area is around 5,800 square kilometers, with a 65 km maximum width and 130 km length), agriculture in Palestine has become one of the main pillars of the local economy....
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| Land Day in Palestine |
| 2008-04-01 15:55:00 |
On 29 February 1976, the Israeli government announced that it planned to confiscate 21,000 dunum (5,500 acres) of Arab-owned land in order to create eight Jewish industrial centers. It was another attempt by Israel to geographically marginalize the state’s Arab community and strip it of its agricultural livelihood. This was made clear by the Israeli government itself when Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture declared the plan’s primary purpose was the creation of a Jewish majority in the Arab Galilee.Having experienced institutionalized discrimination since the Jewish state’s inception, the Palestinians in Israel decided to challenge the confiscations. Community organizers met and decided to organize a general strike. In response, Israeli authorities announced a curfew on the evening o...
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| Palestinians Authors |
| 2008-03-23 17:51:00 |
Hi this is Tam Tree , hope you like the Palestine news blog, I need Palestinians Authors to help me coverage the area of Jerusalem and Gaza.Please send email if you like to participated in this effort. Thanks !tamtree@gmail.com
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| Al Qaida leader slammed Palestinian negotiations with Israel |
| 2008-03-20 17:18:00 |
In the audio excerpts broadcast by the Doha, Qatar-based station, bin Laden said that Palestine "cannot be retaken by negotiations and dialogue, but with fire and iron".Bin Laden also called on Palestinians who are unable to fight in the "land of Al-Quds" -- a Muslim reference to Jerusalem -- to join the al Qaida fight and the holy war, or jihad, in Iraq."The nearest field of jihad today to support our people in Palestine is the Iraqi field," bin Laden said."We tell our brothers in Palestine who could not join the jihad in the land of Al-Quds, to get rid of illusions of political parties and groups which are mired in trickery of the blasphemous democracy and to take their positions among the ranks of the mujahideen in Iraq," he said.If proven to be a...
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| Create Palestine now, says international peace envoy, Tony Blair |
| 2008-03-16 03:17:00 |
The thinking was: You get a deal and all falls into place. But, Blair notes, no deal was ever cut. Unlike the Good Friday Agreement over Northern Ireland, the only agreement has been to agree to reach an agreement.So the former British prime minister is seeking to replay the original music. The way forward, he argues, is not to try to cut a deal on an agreement first: "For the Palestinian state to succeed, you need to start getting the reality of that state on the ground before political negotiations can be meaningful. The state is not about an agreement, but about Palestinian capabilities in handling security and their economy."Every Palestinian-Israeli peace effort has been killed off by the sound of war. It's been as if violence is irremediably built in to peace-making. Instead of the e
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| Accepting Israel occupation on Palestine a cruel apathy |
| 2008-03-08 04:52:00 |
Jamaat-e-Islami Amir, Qazi Hussain Ahmad has said that accepting the Israeli occupation on Palestine was a cruel apathy of the Muslim rulers. Addressing a protest demonstration outside the Faisal Mosque here, he strongly condemned the publication of sacrilege caricatures. Qazi Hussain Ahmad said that the Palestinian lives have been made miserable by unleashing horrendous oppressions on them—innocent children were being massacred. He said that one-fourth of the world constitutes of the Muslims rich in natural resources, but could not do anything. He said that the Muslims were not even conscious of the oppressions perpetrated in Palestine and Gaza. Slogans against Demark and demand for breaking diplomatic relations kep
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| PLO Calls on UNSC to Protect Palestinian People |
| 2008-03-02 16:47:00 |
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Sunday urged the UN Security Council to provide international protection for the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Jerusalem and endorsed President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to suspend the negotiations and contacts with Israel until the Israeli “criminal aggression” on Gaza immediately stops.Referring to the “declared intentions” of the Israeli occupation’s leaders to turn the Gaza Strip into a “holocaust” reminiscent of the Nazi crimes, the PLO Executive Committee in a statement released on Sunday called on the “UN Security Council and all international bodies to provide international protection for the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the rest of the Palestinian home
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| Is al-Qaeda preparing for Palestine? |
| 2008-02-28 16:12:00 |
Al-Qaeda is staking new terrain - the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - taking advantage of the chaos reigning in Gaza and the radicalisation of part of Palestinian public opinion, analysts say.Signs are mounting that the international netowrk is trying to become a factor in the longstanding Middle East dispute, from harsh anti-Israeli discourse by al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden to calls for foreign fighters to head to Gaza."We will not recognise a state for the Jews, not even one inch of the land of Palestine. Blood calls for more blood and demolishing calls for further demolishing," said bin Laden, in late December remarks carried on a jihadist Internet site.
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| Palestine must be declared independent immediately |
| 2008-02-24 04:31:00 |
The Israeli press is abuzz with reactions to statements by Yasser Abed Rabbo, a key Palestinian peace negotiator, who called for a unilateral declaration of independence if reconciliation with Israel stumbles. Almost all of the reactions were judgmental and non-sympathetic. Few were even cynical. None saw a valid comparison with the Kosovo case. If Abed Rabbo's proposal was meant to shake the Israelis in any way, it had clearly failed to do so. The US immediately rejected the comparison with Kosovo. There were few encouraging voices from the Arab world as well, and in some cases the call drew unexpected flak. After all this was not the first time the Palestinians had made such a caveat.
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| Palestine Today |
| 2008-02-19 05:05:00 |
Also in the West Bank, Israeli troops kidnapped four Palestinians including a female during invasions on Monday. Local sources reported that Tasbeeh al-Khayaat, 22 a student of engineering at an- Najah University in Nablus was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers and was moved to an unknown destination.Nafha society, an organization defending Human and Prisoner Rights, said in addition to Khayaat, there have been six females kidnapped in 2008. The organization called upon the international community, especially those active in women rights, to take action to save the lives of at least 110 female prisoners in the Israeli jails.
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| Palestinians and Jews: A Solution? |
| 2008-02-14 01:55:00 |
The conflict between Jews and Arabs over Palestine arose soon after Russian Jews began to immigrate into Palestine in 1882. No solution acceptable to both sides is yet in sight, but it is possible to identify the least unsatisfactory solution by a process of elimination.A solution that still has adherents is a binational, democratic, secular Palestinian State with an Arab majority and a large Jewish minority. It was rejected at the Biltmore Conference in May 1942, in which Zionist and non-Zionist organizations participated. The great majority voted for the Biltmore Program, which aimed at establishing a Jewish State in Palestine. A binational State was never a realistic option.
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| Grand Mufti of Palestine warns against Israeli plots in Jerusalem |
| 2008-02-11 03:28:00 |
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories Sheikh Mohammad Hussein renewed on Sunday his warnings against the plots of the Israeli occupation authorities in the Holy City. "The Israeli occupation authorities conduct suspicious acts targeting the Palestinian holy places under ungrounded pretexts," Sheikh Hussein said in a press release.
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